Real estate taxation is a niche legal area that presents an array of challenges and opportunities.
With years of experience advising businesses like yours, our dedicated Real Estate Tax team will get under the skin of your organization quickly and ensure your strategy delivers the biggest possible uplift to your bottom line.
When you work with us, you will benefit from our cutting edge sector knowledge, built up through years of experience, a broad client base and our active participation in key industry committees and working groups.
We take a proactive approach and will work closely with you help to shape new products that work for your business, such as real estate investment trusts, and to identify appropriate structures, such as the property authorized fund, the authorized contractual scheme and other more traditional options.
You will find a one-stop shop for real estate investments, whether direct or indirect, joint ventures or funds. Our service covers everything from the inception of a project to structuring advice and detailed guidance on the transaction itself. We advise on all direct and indirect taxes, as well as asset-specific taxes and direct taxation of income and gains.
On structuring, we work closely with our Real Estate, Corporate, Funds, Finance and Regulatory colleagues to ensure you receive seamless advice across the board.
Our lawyers are experienced in a broad range of complex real estate tax planning. This includes structured financial products based around real estate assets, real estate fund structuring for institutional and private capital investors and large scale planning and development projects for both public and private sector clients.
Our experience includes advising:
- on the structuring and acquisition by a private equity fund of a complex, multi-jurisdictional bingo property portfolio; covering the interaction between non-resident capital gains tax and the partnership taxation rules, which is still very novel in the market
- a fund on its strategic structuring and acquisition of £130m+ portfolio of complex property assets from the vendor including student accommodation
- an insurer on all tax aspects of a £500m senior living development joint venture with a Pension Trustee (5,100 homes with a GDV of c.£4bn)
- a bank on the c.£100m sale and leaseback of several data centers
- an online fashion retailer on their highly strategic UK distribution centers, to increase their sales capacity to £4bn
- a property development and investment company on the indirect tax provisions of its complex swap deal with a global investment management company, which saw £345m of industrial and urban warehouse assets change hands
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